Martin L. Taillefer, CD,
B.Sc. (RRMC), M.Sc. (UVIC)

CMOS
President 2016-17

Martin (Marty) Taillefer was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec.
In
1981, he was selected to study at Le College Militaire Royal de St-Jean
and transferred after second year to the Royal Roads Military College,
graduating with B.Sc. in Physics and Oceanography. He joined the
Royal
Canadian Navy and served on many Canadian and America Warships over a
20-year career. He attended the University of Victoria earning a
M.Sc.
in Ocean Acoustics in 1998, then to become the Pacific Fleet
Oceanographer - specializing in environmental analysis for
Anti-Submarine Warfare. In 2001, he retired from the Royal
Canadian
Navy and began working at General Dynamics (GD) Canada, where he was
able to
continue his studies in acoustics and sonar design at Penn State
(2003-04). Most his time at GD Canada was working on the Swedish
HYDRA
Underwater Warfare Suite & Program. He coordinated and
supported
the installation of sonar suite aboard the Swedish Navy Göteborg
Corvette class vessel, at the Muskö Naval Base, a Swedish
underground naval facility on the island of Muskö just south of
Stockholm. In 2006, Marty was seconded and eventually
transferred
to
the Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada as a Senior Policy and
Oceanographer Advisor. His portfolios were varied, mainly devoted
to
ocean modelling and space-based Remote Sensing. He was a
technical
Advisor for RADARSAT- II satellite and for the Offshore Oceanographic
Science Vessel (OOSV). In 2010, he stood up a new oceanography
and
ocean acoustics Company, Maritime Way Scientific. Maritime Way
grew
from a home-based consulting company to a leading underwater
acoustics analysis company in Canada. In 2014, Maritime Way was
recognized by the US Dept. of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean and
Energy Management (BOEM) as a top acoustic company in North America.

Martin has been actively involved with the Canadian Meteorological and
Oceanographic Society (CMOS) since 2006, serving for three years as
Chair of the Ottawa CMOS Centre. He was the co-founder of the
Arctic
Special Interest Group and was a strong proponent of the present CMOS
Strategic and
Business plan to ensure CMOS sustainability for many years to come.